Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand on August 20, 1871. He was the second of seven boys, out of a family of 12 children. As a youth, he was educated in government schools, but at the age of 16, he attended Canterbury College. This was his start into the world of science, and from there on, he proceeded to be a world renowned scientist. His accomplishments formed a solid base for scientists to build on, giving them the ability to achieve the atomic theory of modern day.
Awards, Achievements, and Scholarships: -1889- At 16 years old, Rutherford recieved a scholorship to the University of New Zealand, Wellmington, where he proceeded to enroll in Canterbury College. -1893- Rutherford graduated M.A. (Master of Arts) with a double first in Mathematics and Physical Science, but continued with research work at Canterbury, where he then received the B.Sc.(Bachelor of Science) degree. -1894- 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship- allowed him to attend Trinity College in Cambridge as a research student under J.J. Thompson -1897- Awarded the B.A. Research Degree and the Coutts-Trotter Studentship of Trinity College -1898- Became the Macdonald Chair of Physics at McGill University, Montreal -1907- Returned to England to become Langworth Professor of Physics at the University on Manchester -1908- Nobel Prize in Chemistry -1919- Succeeded Sir Joseph Thomson as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge
Other Positions: -Chairman of the Advisory Council,H.M. Government,Department of Scientific and Industrial Research -Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London -Director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge
Famous Quotes: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
“If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics.”
DID YOU KNOW?!
-Ernest Rutherford was from New Zealand, being the fourth child out of twelve siblings.
-He discovered and named alpha and beta and coined them as terms, along with gamma ray
-First person to artificially disintegrate an element
-Discovered radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms
-Due to his "Gold Foil Experiment", Rutherford was able to prove that an atom had a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons, and that the small nucleus was the majority of the atom's mass, the rest being mostly "empty space."
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Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand on August 20, 1871. He was the second of seven boys, out of a family of 12 children. As a youth, he was educated in government schools, but at the age of 16, he attended Canterbury College. This was his start into the world of science, and from there on, he proceeded to be a world renowned scientist. His accomplishments formed a solid base for scientists to build on, giving them the ability to achieve the atomic theory of modern day.
Awards, Achievements, and Scholarships:
-1889- At 16 years old, Rutherford recieved a scholorship to the University of New Zealand, Wellmington, where he proceeded to enroll in Canterbury College.
-1893- Rutherford graduated M.A. (Master of Arts) with a double first in Mathematics and Physical Science, but continued with research work at Canterbury, where he then received the B.Sc.(Bachelor of Science) degree.
-1894- 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship- allowed him to attend Trinity College in Cambridge as a research student under J.J. Thompson
-1897- Awarded the B.A. Research Degree and the Coutts-Trotter Studentship of Trinity College
-1898- Became the Macdonald Chair of Physics at McGill University, Montreal
-1907- Returned to England to become Langworth Professor of Physics at the University on Manchester
-1908- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
-1919- Succeeded Sir Joseph Thomson as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge
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Other Positions:
-Chairman of the Advisory Council,H.M. Government,Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
-Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London
-Director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge
Famous Quotes:
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
“If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics.”
DID YOU KNOW?!
-Ernest Rutherford was from New Zealand, being the fourth child out of twelve siblings.
-He discovered and named alpha and beta and coined them as terms, along with gamma ray
-First person to artificially disintegrate an element
-Discovered radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms
-Due to his "Gold Foil Experiment", Rutherford was able to prove that an atom had a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons, and that the small nucleus was the majority of the atom's mass, the rest being mostly "empty space."
Want to learn more about Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment?
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13 Nov. 2011. <http://chemistry.about.com/od/historyofchemistry
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"Smart Jews or Stupid Muslims? | Third-I Studio." The Third Eye of Izzat Zainal Arifin. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. <http://izzat.net23.net/?p=53>.
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